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Claudio Acciari: Animator, Designer, and Comic Book Artist. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS DESIGNS Media: Adobe Photoshop, Black Pen, and Acrylics.

Dan Panosian: Comic Book Artist, Illustrator, And Concept Artist CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS DESIGNS Media: Adobe Photoshop, Colored Pencils, and Copic Markers.

With Coraline coming out today, Damon Bard has put up loads of pictures of all his Maquettes he did for the film. I was able to ask Damon a few questions about his work on Coraline (see below the pics). To view more of Damons work, go to his website at http://www.bardsculpturestudio.com. Damon how many sculptures did you do for Coraline? I did quite a few sculptures for the film. I don't remember how many, but a big chunk of it is on my site, it was alot though. I was involved with the project for about 3 years on and off. The delicate shapes in those characters are amazing. Was it a challenge creating some of the sculptures? Part of the challenge is the delicate shapes. Also, getting in tune with Henry Selick (or any director) can be challenging as he is very demanding when it comes to what he wants. Another challenge is the engineering of the sculptures for the puppet fabrication, making them functional for the animators to animate, and easy to maintain and replace parts that...

Shannon Tindle: Visual Development/Story Artist CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS DESIGNS Media: Cintiq, Sketchbook Pro, Modbook tablet, Adobe Photoshop, Precise V Point pens, Colerase pencils and Pantone Markers.